We Don't Grow Tobacco

All these work that ever I've done Been beneath that burning sun So, holding that tobacco around to cure I would chop that wicked weed 'Til our hands and fingers bleed I'm working like I'm you, baby boy We've been farming on this land since 1810 Through the drought and pestilence and war Now I sure am sad to say That I would live to see this day And we don't grow tobacco around here no more We don't grow, we don't grow Oh, it's still the only work we'll ever know We don't grow, we don't grow We don't grow tobacco around here no more Grandpa told me this, I know Change is coming, it won't be slow Knocking just like a thunder at the door Better feel the roar around Empty bonds just fall undone Where iron is coming up through the floor Once we grow it by the pond Now the kids are moved to town And all that's left are road and meat and corn Now I sure am sad to say That I will live to see this day And we don't grow tobacco around here no more We don't grow, we don't grow Oh, it's still the only work we'll ever know Well, we don't grow, we don't grow We don't grow tobacco around here no more, oh Woo, yes, I sure am sad to say This way of life has gone away Now that we don't grow tobacco around here no more Well no we don't grow tobacco around here no more